RFK Jr. completes a vaccine recommendation cocovated for healthy children and pregnant people

The Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced today that government health agencies would no longer recommend hairstyle for healthy children and healthy pregnant women.

Kennedy announced the change on the social media site X (formerly Twitter) alongside the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary and the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya.

What they say

Kennedy criticized the Biden administration, saying that its vaccination policy last year “urged healthy children to obtain another cocovated shot, despite the absence of clinical data to support the repeated recall strategy in children.”

“It ends today. It’s common sense and it’s a good science,” added Bhattacharya. His agency has no formal involvement in vaccine regulation or the creation of vaccination strategy.

The one -minute video announcement did not include any information on the data they referenced. Makary noted that most countries have ceased to recommend the vaccine for children.

Covated risks for pregnant women and children

Pregnant women run a much higher risk of being hospitalized and developing serious complications from an infection codes that non -pregnant people.

“When you are pregnant, your body’s immune system adapts to allow the fetus to develop, and this adaptation puts you more at risk for a range of infectious diseases,” said Georges Benjamin, MD, executive director of the American Public Health Association. “Women who are pregnant – healthy that they can be otherwise – should be considered at a higher risk due to physiological changes to their bodies.”

Children under a year have the greatest risk of hospitalization and death by COVID of any pediatric group. However, a vaccinated person can transmit certain antibodies to their newborn baby, reducing the baby’s risk of severe core from 50 to 80%, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).

“As an ob-gyns who treat the patients every day, we have seen in the first hand how dangerous COVVI-19 can be during pregnancy and for newborns who depend on maternal antibodies in the protection vaccine,” said ACOG president Steven J. Fleischman, MD, in a press release. “We are worried about our patients in the future, who may be less likely to choose vaccination during pregnancy despite clear and final evidence demonstrating its advantage.”

To protect older children from the severe cocvid, the CDC has already declared that at least one dose for children over 6 months old can provide basic immunity against much more secure disease than natural immunity against infection. It is not clear from Tuesday’s announcement if the CDC cancels its recommendation that children get recalling, or if a series of primary vaccines will also be removed from the vaccine calendar.

One of the many changes in vaccine policy covers

In 2022, the CDC began to recommend coastal vaccines for children as young as 6 months. The 2023 pediatric calendar recommended a primary series with two or three doses for young children.

The CDC pediatric vaccine calendar and the recommendations for pregnant people have not yet been updated. The recommendations of the online vaccine always recommend children from 6 months to 6 years old receive “At least one dose of the current COVVI-19 vaccine.”

Kennedy’s announcement comes a week after FDA leaders announced in an editorial that they restrict vaccination access to healthy adults.

Makary, who co-wrote the article, said that Booster Covid photos are limited to people over the age of 65 and those who have a health that endangers them in serious illness. The article indicated pregnancy as one of the conditions that justify vaccination.

RFK Jr. exceeds the CDC

As a rule, the FDA approves vaccines after examining the data on their safety and efficiency. The CDC then defines the policy for which should obtain approved vaccines and when. The CDC generally takes advice from a panel of independent experts, the Consultative Committee for Vaccination Practices (ACIP).

Kennedy’s announcement seemed to exaggerate CDC contributions. The AIPI should meet on June 25 to discuss the vaccination recommendations that have been turned for the fall. The nominated to direct the CDC has not yet been confirmed, and no one from the CDC was on the screen when Kennedy’s announcement.

While Kennedy can legally make a unilateral decision of the vaccine calendar, Benjamin said it was unusual.

“This is clearly a deviation from the traditional decision -making process of vaccines, which undermines it,” said Benjamin.

How children and speakers can remain protected

Benjamin said that it is not clear how the change in the vaccination calendar would affect access to vaccines for children and pregnant people. Historically, when a vaccine is removed from the calendar, insurance companies are no longer required to cover the cost of vaccination.

If this is true in this case, healthy speakers and children’s guards may have to pay his pocket for the time being. If people cannot afford, the disparities in the coverage of existing vaccines could become more pronounced.

It is not yet clear if healthy pregnant people and children will always be allowed to obtain covid primary vaccines or recall strokes.